Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-07-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondent.

remarkable results of the Demo
cratic Administratio is the marvel.
GUS boom in real estate, in certain
favored localities of the Federal
City, a movement not bona fide, but
stimulated by the deft Vaccinations
of ring of landed gamblers, who
are coming fortunes out of their
shrewd enterprises. Though strange
and startling it may seem, | believe
it is nevertheless true, lat President
Cleveland and one or two members
of his Cabinet are either in this
speculative clique or tools of it, for
my informant is perfectly trust
worthy and seldom makes mistake.
President Cleveland has not yet
paid for his new home in this city,
it being given to him as an adver-
tiscment and an incentive to pur-
chase by capitalists owning lots in
that vicinity. Mr.. Whitney has
reaped a rich profit from his invest
ment, which probably amounted to
little of real value, by selling his
suburban seat "Grasslands," at a
gain of S75, 900, on his alleged pur-
chase.
The Superintendent of the Geo
logical Survey has submitted to the
Secretary of the Interior an exten-
sive plan or operations for the fiscal
year, in continuing the typographical
display of the United States, it is
expected that important and valuable
scientific and neurological results
will be secured, especially as regards
the great earthquake at Charleston
last year.
Under recent act of Congress
authority was granted for the return
to the rightful owners of the famous
Twiggs swords, captured by General
Butler, at New Orleans, in 1862, and
the matter has been referred to the
Court of Claims by the Secretary of
the Treasury; an English lady who
says that Gen. Twiggs presented
her the swords at the time he escaped
from New Orleans, and the executor
of the Generals estate both having
filed claims to the historic trophies.
The official AK is beginning its
fall on the devoted heads of the
Grand Army of the Republic men,
the first victim being Major Chas.
f. Behle, special pension examiner
who was a gallant Union veteran,
his only offense being a criticism in
private conversation of the Presi.
dents battle-fag order For this he
was summarily dismissed by Gener-
al Black. At least such is the SUP
position, as the autocratic official
declines to give any reason. Major
Behle has appealed from Gen. Black
to Secretary Lamar, and while the
result il awaited with interest,
doubt if the dreamy secretary inter
feres with the harmonious working
of his subordiuate's boom for the
Vice-Prssidency. know 1t to be a
fact that the Pension Bureau is be-
ing used as political agency to ad-
vance the designs of the chief In
his grand hunt for the best office in
sight. Facts have been distorted in
the effort to show that more work
than ever, for the same time, has
been done in that Office during the
present Administration.
The Interstate Commission has
adjusted its first case of an alleged
overcharge by railroad for carrying
freight-the Oregon Railway and
! Navigation Company, being the de-
fendent, and poor widow of Wash
iugton Territory being the complain
ant for the sum of twenty dollars
The great Pan.Electric scandal is
again brought to the front by DR..
Rogers, who, believing that he was
about to be defrauded, published a
notice forbidding the sale of the
stock, for which the brokers are Of
fering $l2 per share. In that pub
LEGATION Rogers bluntly uses the
names of those leading Democratic
lights--Senalor Harris, Attorney
General Gariapd. Gen. Joe Johnston